Print Design

In my earlier years as an artist I focused more on fine arts such as oil painting and printmaking. I studied with mentors in the hills of St. Johnsbury, VT as a landscape impressionist. Once I started using computers to produce art in college, I shifted more toward digital mediums such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. My college professors encouraged me to incorporate my fine art skills into my computer-based art of today. Keeping faithful to my teachings and continuing to learn from the old masters is a tradition that I plan to uphold.

	Helium Newpaper Ad This was a 1/4 page ad in the BostonNow newspaper for the Citizens Journalism Awards, a sponsorship by the newspaper to gather content from local journalists and by Helium members who write on the site. This is part of a series of newspaper ads that I created for one of Helium’s advertising campaigns.
	ProjectSkyline LLC Post Card This is a two-sided postcard that I created for ProjectSkyline’s advertising collateral. We mailed this card to businesses that we believe desperately needed a boost in internet presence or a re-creation of a brand identity.
	New England Alternative Energy LLC Business Card This is a business card for a consulting company who specializes in clean energy production. It is a two-sided card with a full bleed. I gained experience as pre-press technician while a manager for a print shop on Newbury Street in Boston. Pre-flighting hundreds of jobs a day gave me the expertise I need today to design and produce branding items for cliental.
	Professional Make-up Artist – Tara Osterkamp Business Cards This is a business card for a client who works as a make-up artist. The front of the card I designed in Photoshop. The back was designed in Illustrator.
	Praying with Our Pens Poster A Jewish synagogue located in NYC called Praying with Our Pens commissioned me to create a poster for public awareness. The client was extremely concerned about human issues around the world and was on a mission to make people aware of different crises. The subject of this particular poster was to inform people of the mass genocides in Western Darfur, Sudan. I drew the entire illustration in Adobe Illustrator using the pen tool. This is part of a series of posters I did for this client. It was a rewarding project in more ways than one.
	Vision Systems Magazine Ad When I worked for Penwell, a media company providing authoritative print publications, I was involved in multiple magazine projects. The majority of my designs were produced in a program called Quark Xpress. Many of the projects were page spreads and cover designs. This is a magazine cover that I designed for a high tech company using Quark Xpress. It also happens to be my first ever published piece of artwork.

Print Design

Helium Newpaper Ad

ProjectSkyline LLC Post Card

New England Alternative Energy LLC Business Card

Professional Make-up Artist – Tara Osterkamp Business Cards

Praying with Our Pens Poster

Vision Systems Magazine Ad